Given the collective nature of marital decisionmaking and the vast changes infernale labor force participation in recent years, it may be misleading to view marital timing in terms of individual labor force integration. To do so, is to stress the effects of a set of factors on some individuals,...

Pattems of entry into first marriage among recent birth cohorts (1952 - 1967) of young adults are examined based upon the U.S. Census Bureau 's Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). This paper attempts to illustrate the manner in which...

A longitudinal analytical framework, one that sees class as a process over time and not a fixed attribute, is proposed as a means to redirect class analysis and revive a theoretical debate that has gone stale. Class analysis implies an inherently dynamic perspective. However, quantitative...

Nach der deutschen Vereinigung halbierte sich die Geburtenhäufigkeit in Ostdeutschland. Sie ist damit noch unter die international gesehen niedrige Geburtenhäufigkeit in Westdeutschland gesunken. Der starke Rückgang der Geburten in Ostdeutschland wird in der Öffentlichkeit vielfach beklagt....